Improvement in binders  attachments for harvesters



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THOMAS URDAHL, OF OROSSPLAIN S, ASSIGNOR TO SIMEON MILLS, OF

MADISON, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BINDERS ATTACHMENTS FOR HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,715, datid November18, 1873; applica ion filed August 22, 1872.

CASE B.

out top, and open at the front end. Through the opening at the front endthe cut grain is thrust into the box by the automatic rake B as itsweeps the gavel from the platform O of the reaping-machine. The box isianked on each side -at or near the bottom with a step,

D D, upon which the binders are carried While binding. There is alsoattached to the box, at the top of the rear part, a shelf or table, E,upon which binders rest the bundles after they are lifted from the boxin the process of binding.

The box, with its appendages, as herein described, when in use, isdesigned to be mounted upon a caster or wheels, and attached to anddrawn at the rear end or side of the platform of a grain-reaper orharvesting-machine, that handles or delivers the eut grain with anautomatic rake, for the purpose of receiving, retaining, and carryingthe gavel or bundle when so delivered to suit the convenience of thebinder and for greater facility of handling inthe process of binding.

Having thus described the improvement, what is claimed as new is Incombination with the grain-platform the binding-carriage hinged thereto,consisting of the gavel-box or receiver A, having `thebinders stands Dsecured to its opposite sides, the binding-table E secured upon its rearend, and the supporting wheel also attached to said end, substantiallyas shown and described.

To the above specification of my invention I have set my hand this 10thday of August, 1872.

THOMAS URDAHL.

Witnesses: A

SIM-EON MILLS, CHARLES M. PALMER.

